(SPECIAL NEW ORLEANS POST-HURRICANE EPISODE) First up, London's (via New Zealand)
The Veils did their somber "The Valleys of New Orleans" from their 2004 debut
The Runaway Found (
iTunes,
Amazon,
Other Music). Then long-time indie favorites
The Silver Jews did "New Orleans" from their '94 album
Starlite Walker (
iTunes,
Amazon,
Other Music). Next was one of my favorite classic New Orleans' instrumental bands,
The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, with "SOME SONG" was taken from the Arhoolie Records release
Creole Belles (
iTunes,
Amazon,
Arhoolie). And finally, from
The Smoking Popes final album, featuring standards covered by the band, called
The Party's Over (
iTunes,
Amazon), we heard "Stormy Weather".
This week's episode features the song "New Orleans Farewell" by Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick behind a montage of sound documenting the Bush Administration's guide of how to not handle disaster you failed to prevent. Click here for links to help. Links from montage: FoxNews, Ted Koppel, RealTime, NOW, Countdown, On the Media, NBC Telethon, CNN, Harvey Jackson. Look at the photos and their captions mentioned by On The Media.